ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 17

Lesson 17
2:00 pm  B2
Class
Reading & Discussion Room 101 (Source: Global pp. 106 - 107)

Vocabulary
hire someone for a job
fire someone from a job 
pet hates
to earn (money/a lot/little)

Homework
Dependent prepositions p. 106.

Going Further
Room 101 the BBC Series

1984 Winston is taken to Room 101

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 15

Lesson 15
12:30 pm C1
Class

1. Exam Practice - Speaking Part 2 & self assessment 
2. Gender Equality - Reading, discussion & vocabulary https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/17/financial-giants-50m-girl-fund-to-back-firms-with-good-gender-balance

Homework
Revision - Unit 6 p. 102

Vocabulary
to plough money into something (e.g. a business) = to invest heavily
to raise hackles = to make angry 


2:00 pm C2
Class
Language Change & Grammar Gripes
Jigsaw reading & discussion
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/12/grammar-gripes-why-do-we-love-to-complain-about-language

Homework
Reading - What's your view on the influence of advertising?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2018/may/14/smart-knows-thats-not-english-how-adland-took-a-mallet-to-the-language

Corrections 
Check your pronunciation of plural forms - it is not always /Iz/
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/308046/whats-the-rule-for-pronouncing-s-as-z-or-s

Going Further - Video Extras
1. Paris Is Burning
"Reading"

2. Tracey Ullman - Angela Merkel Skypes Donald Trump

Lombardi Segni Legal English Course Lesson 28

Lesson 28

12:00 B1

Class

Speaking - precedent

Language input - present, past and changing habits

Homework

Habits - free practice

What are 3 things ...

You usually do

You used to do

You're used to (doing)

You're getting used to (doing)

You'll never get used to (doing)

1:30 C2

Class

Reading & Analysis - Ruth Ellis's letter

Listening - hypercorrection

https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond

ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 15

Lesson 15
12:30 pm B2
Class
Discussion Smart Working
What is Smart Working? See: http://www.flexibility.co.uk/flexwork/general/Naomi-Stanford-smart-working.htm

Corrections
Pronunciation 
mayor /meəʳ/  major /meɪdʒəʳ /
Dependent prepositions
answer to her manager
take my child at to school
Collocation
make + decision, a distinction, a cake
Confused words
humour/mood
Countability
Homework (uncountable)
So many worried

Vocabulary
efficient
patience (noun), patient (adjective)
hidden
to sponsor

Homework

• Read the article on smart working from the link above
• Room 101 (from Global English pp. 106 - 107) reading & dependent prepositions

2:00pm C1

Class

Language Training - Dependent Prepositions 

laugh at (someone) (excludes the person speaking)

laugh with (someone), laugh about (something)(includes the person speaking)

Language Assessment - Dependent Prepositions

Exam Practice 2 - Open Cloze

Vocabulary

to have second thoughts = to have doubts

something plays on your mind = to think about something a lot

(to be) on standby

Homework

Language Assessment - Vocabulary, Phrasal Verbs, Idioms & Fixed Expressions

Exam Practice 1 - Key Word Transformation

ANIA 2018: B2 (Thursday) Lesson 16

Lesson 16
2:00 pm B2

(1) Presentation - Stefano - 6 Minute English - Women in NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac67KPcSqsM

Vocabulary
recruit
selected
a realistic possibility 
unfortunate
aspects
strengths
math (U.S.)/maths (U.K.)/mathematics

(2) Extended Discussion

• Save the date
• Infrastructure Development - Expanding the airport, a new runway for Fiumicino? https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/global-airport-construction-review-2q2018-usd803-billion-costs-412850
• ANIA Foundation - health roadshow (Street Health Tour)

Corrections

Collocation: We did held a press conference

False Friends: Manifestation or Demonstration 

Pronunciation - Vowel Sounds: woman /wʊmən/ women /wɪmɪn/

ANIA 2018: C1 & C2 (Wednesday) Lesson 14

Lesson 14
12:30 C1
Exam Skills - Speaking Part 2
Useful Language (p, 97)

• contrast
• possibility
• certainty
• emphasis
• surprise
• speculating

Practice Test, Speaking Part 2 (p. 205)

2:00 C2
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Political Discourse https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/15/15585176/motivated-ignorance-politics-debate
• Approaches to error correction
• Approaches to vocabulary - phrasal verbs

Lombardi Segni Legal English Course - Lesson 27

Lesson 27
12:00 B1
Class
Speaking Skills - Discussion

• Approaches to national and global challenges (economic, political, health, environmental)
• The Gapminder Test
• Factfulness

Homework
Hans Rosling- Video Listening
The TED talk should also have the audio script available.

1:30pm C1/C2
Class
Language Skills - Error Correction
Classifying errors: It is important to consider the effect of mistakes and where they come from. Errors that block communication are often caused by false friends or errors in collocation, whereas grammar errors often cause misunderstandings (e.g. modal use, present perfect instead of past simple).

Discussion:

1. What mistakes are you most worried about/feel most self conscious about:
   mispronunciation?
   using the wrong word?
   using the wrong tense?
   sounding too simplistic or unsophisticated?
2. Are you more self conscious about your writing or your speaking? Why?
3. Are you equally worried about slips and mistakes? http://www.errordiary.org/?page_id=7339 
4. What mistakes are you happy to let slide?
5. How far do you agree or disagree with the following statements:

“Americans have ruined the English language.”
“Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English.”
“If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d sound like an American.”
“English accents are the sexiest.”

Homework:
Listening
You are going to listen to an extract from the episode, Across the Pond from The Allusionist podcast from 6th April 2018.
To listen: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/across-the-pond 
For the transcript go to: https://www.theallusionist.org/transcripts/

1. What does the expression across the pond mean?
2. What is hyper-correction? What examples do they give? (16:40)
3. According to Lynne Murphy why do we want to learn grammar? (20:00)
4. What does she say about English in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries?
5. Complete the quotation from the interview:

English deserves our ______________, not our _______________.

Going Further
Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue

https://theprodigaltongue.com